Admission | After admitting ousted Harvard student Adam Wheeler (and later rescinding the offer), the Stanford Office of Undergraduate Admission is considering a random audit system for applicants. “The issue of dishonesty and forgery on the national level is of concern,” Dean of Undergraduate Admission Richard Shaw told The Daily.
Recession | A nationwide Associated Press-Univision poll, co-sponsored by Stanford, details what researchers say is the disproportionate impact of the recession on Hispanics, the country’s fastest-growing minority group.
Ethics | Harvard Medical School on Wednesday released a new conflict-of-interest policy for its professors. Unlike Stanford, Harvard will still accept corporate money for “individual post-graduate medical education classes” as long as it comes from two or more companies. “The policy revisions follow a period of national scrutiny, during which Harvard Medical School and its peer institutions have come under fire for several high-profile cases of undisclosed industry ties,” writes The Harvard Crimson.
Energy | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is among institutions that won an up-to-$122 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop fuel made from sunlight.
Checking in… | …with the Stanford kayakers of California Coastal Mission, who write this week about braving Point Conception.
Schneider | As Senate Democrats dropped carbon-capping legislation today, tributes continued for Stephen Schneider, the Stanford biology professor and climate scientist who died Monday of an apparent heart attack. Five alumni involved in the Natural Resources Defense Council authored remembrances, while Richard Black at BBC Earth Watch detailed the clashes between Schneider and extremists and climate skeptics. The professor’s contributions to the field “didn’t necessarily make him a popular man,” Black writes. The Woods Institute has started a memorial fund for “educating the next generation of environmental leaders and stewards.”
In today’s Daily | Students and colleagues remember Schneider, the University eyes improvements in water use efficiency, Stanford researchers say they have developed a test to predict the success of in vitro fertilization, four former Cardinal baseball players transition to the pros, a reporter learns the campus sign language, Tobin reviews local barbecue.
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